Civil War swords, ca. 1860
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Colby College Special Collections
Colby graduates participated in the Civil War in large numbers. There were 86 commissioned officers, holding positions from Brigadier Generals to lieutenants, as well as chaplains and medical officers.
Colby owns numerous materials of Benjamin Butler, class of 1838, a general in the Civil War who went on to become a politician from Massachusetts. Special Collections also contains the diaries of Colonel Richard Cutts Shannon, papers of Major General Henry Clay Merriam, and correspondence and papers (1861-1891) of Brigadier General Charles Henry Smith.
Colby's Civil War memorial is a copy of the "Lion of Lucerne" statue and a plaque above it with the names of the 26 men who died. It is located in the street of Miller Library.
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